McCulley, Johnston: The Mark Of Zorro. 37255Macdonald: London. 1959.First British edition (& 1st printing).Hardcover.Classic pulp adventure that had first appeared as a long story - ''The Curse of Capistrano'' - by McCulley in All-Story Magazine in 1919, then made into a 1920 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. followed by a US hardcover in 1924. Uncommon UK hardcover.

Neat inked name and date on front free endpaper, lightly bruised top front corner tip, otherwise a fine copy in a VG pictorial dustjacket with some dust-soiling along spine panel and rear panel.

Crime novel: winner of the Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of 1995. Promotional kit for the paperback edition consisting of a 68 page extract (card wraps) from the novel and a small bottle of Macallan whisky (unopened in card box), both laid into a card box with sliding lid.. (Macallan were sponsors of the award that year).

Moorcock, Michael: The Russian Intelligence (signed by the author). 31997New English Library (NEL): London. 1983.First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).Hardcover.Jerry Cornelius spy novel (as alter ego ''Jerry Cornell''), sequel to THE CHINESE AGENT (1970) with an introduction by Jack Trevor Story. First published by Savoy Books as a paperback original in 1980. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Very uncommon UK hardcover.

Morrell, David: Blood Oath. 13600Severn House: London 1989.First British edition (& 1st printing).Hardcover.Sequel to FIRST BLOOD (which was the basis for the film RAMBO - and indeed this Severh House cover depicts the main character as Sylvester Stallone). Uncommon UK hardcover (most Severn House titles - as with Robert Hale - were printed for the library market).

Morrissey, J. L.: Poison Is Queen. 42781John Gifford: London. Nd (1949).First edition (& 1st printing).Hardcover.Thriller. Very uncommon UK hardcover (there was a more common Thriller Book Club edition the following year).

Near fine copy in a good (bright, unfaded) pictorial dustjacket with shallow chipping, creasing and several small closed tears along the edges.

NEW BLOOD, (ed. Chris Lacher): New Blood no 1 - 7 (all published). 312331987-1990.First editions.Magazine.Seven issues of this small-press horror fiction magazine were published between 1987-1990, the first (''Premiere'') issue as an A5 booklet in plain red stapled wrappers, the next two as (larger) A4 perfect bound magazines in illustrated wrappers, and issues 4 - 7 as A4 stapled magazines. By issue seven it had become a slick professional newstand magazine with colour covers - and promptly folded. This is a fine/as new (unread) set of all seven issues.

Newman, Sharan: Guinevere (inscribed by the author). 39131St. Martin's Press: NY. 1981.First paperback edition.Trade paperback original.Historical fantasy. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED TO THE UK SF WRITER KEITH ROBERTS/''For Keith Roberts, with thanks and many wishes for a happy holiday, Sharon Newman, 1991''. From the library of UK writer Keith Roberts, with a short letter of provenance laid in from the Executor of his estate.

OFF BEAT DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE,: Off Beat Detective Story Magazine vol 2 no 5. 38328Pontiac Publishing Corp: Holyoke, MA. 1958 (November).First edition.Digest magazine.Volume 2, number 5 (November 1958). Octavo, single issue, cover illustration by M. E. Sherwood, pictorial wrappers. Mystery magazine which emphasized sex and violence. Note: previously titled SURE FIRE DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE for nine issues from 1956-1958, with a title change to OFF BEAT DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE from the September 1958 issue (with no change in volume numbering) for a further 26 issues till May 1963. See Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. 394-96. Note: although Harlan Ellison is listed on the cover, there is actually no story by him in this issue.

Pearsall, Jay: Mystery and Crime: The New York Public Library Book of Answers: Intriguing and Entertaining Questions and Answers about the Who's Who and What's What Of Whodunits. 35604Fireside: NY. 1995.First edition (& 1st printing).Trade paperback original.176 pages.

Penzler, Otto (ed.): The Great Detectives. 35572Little, Brown And Company: Boston. 1978.First edition (& 1st printing).Hardcover.Interviews with 26 crime/thriller writerrs: ''twenty-six masters of contemporary detective fiction are put on the stand and asked many questions about the private and professional lives of their sleuths''.

Pohl, Frederik: The Best Of Frederik Pohl. 41315Sidgwick & Jackson: London. 1976.First British edition (& 1st printing).Hardcover.Collects nineteen sf stories. Seven-page introduction by Lester del Rey: six-page afterword (with story notes) by Pohl. First published in the US in 1975 as a Ballantine paperback original, and also as a Nelson Doubleday Book Club edition. Uncommon UK hadcover.

Page edges browned, bruising to bottom corner tips, a near fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.

Pointer, Michael: The Public Life Of Sherlock Holmes. 08141David & Charles: London. 1975.First edition (& 1st printing).Hardcover.200 pages: ''the first book to recount the many ways in which the entertainment industry has used, and misused, the best-known character in all fiction''.